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William L. Romine
Researcher at Wright State University
Publications - 75
Citations - 1174
William L. Romine is an academic researcher from Wright State University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Rasch model & Science education. The author has an hindex of 17, co-authored 70 publications receiving 825 citations. Previous affiliations of William L. Romine include Missouri Valley College & University of Missouri.
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Learning science content through socio-scientific issues-based instruction: a multi-level assessment study
TL;DR: In this article, three teachers implemented an SSI intervention focused on the use of biotechnology for identifying and treating sexually transmitted diseases and found statistically and practically significant gains in content k...
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What Are People Tweeting About Zika? An Exploratory Study Concerning Its Symptoms, Treatment, Transmission, and Prevention
TL;DR: It is demonstrated how categories of discussion on Twitter about an epidemic can be discovered so that public health officials can understand specific societal concerns within the disease-specific categories.
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What Are People Tweeting about Zika? An Exploratory Study Concerning Symptoms, Treatment, Transmission, and Prevention
TL;DR: In this article, a combination of natural language processing and machine learning techniques were used to determine what people are tweeting about Zika, and a two-stage classifier system was built to find relevant tweets on Zika and then categorize these into the four disease categories.
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Assessment of scientific literacy: Development and validation of the Quantitative Assessment of Socio‐Scientific Reasoning (QuASSR)
TL;DR: The development and validation of the Quantitative Assessment of Socio-scientific Reasoning (QuASSR) in a college context is described, finding that the four sub-constructs represent a one-dimensional progression of ideas, and that SSR is largely independent of declarative knowledge.
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Thermal diffusivity of rhyolitic glasses and melts: effects of temperature, crystals and dissolved water
TL;DR: In this article, the authors measured the thermal diffusivity (D) of rhyolitic glass samples from Mono Craters, California using laser-flash analysis on pristine and remelted obsidian samples and fit the results with a simple model as an exponential function of temperature and a linear function of crystallinity.